We
intend to repeat the same assessment plan as in 09/10 with one change, based on
the hypothesis that our students begin a course with virtually no firm
knowledge of culture relevant to the course.

This
year, the French Discipline is focusing on the latter part of this statement of
objectives, that is, on studentsŐ abilities to think critically about the
target cultures.

Our
goal:
Students should be able to write intelligently about French and/or Francophone
cultures: social and political histories, literatures, and/or philosophies.

Method
of assessment:
Each instructor will create a pretest
for each upper-division elective, to be administered in the first week of the
course. Each instructor will randomly select two examples of the pretest in
each elective course and compare individual pretest results to the
papers/projects produced by these students at the end of the semester. These
will be read and discussed as a discipline, particularly in light of pretest
results.